July For Loki Using 30 Days Of Deity Devotion Prompts, Day 25 A Time When This Deity Has Refused To Help

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 25 • A time when this deity has refused to help

I don’t usually ask Loki for help, as my previous post demonstrates. I pray for his guidance, instead. I ask him to show me the way, to inspire me, to enlighten me, and thus far he’s never denied me his blessing. Which doesn’t mean I ask him silly things, of course, but in my experience he’s not one to refuse to guide those who need his help. His help may lead to difficult steps, for sure, and he often encourages us to face our worst fears - and our inner selves, which can be even more frightening. But he’s there for us, rest assured.

Art: Loki the Shifter by samflegal on DeviantArt

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 30 • Any suggestions for others just starting to learn about Loki?

Don’t approach him lightly.

But if you feel drawn to him, or if you sense he’s calling you, follow your instinct.

Nevermind what you’ve been told about him.

Be respectful, but have no fear. He’s a god, not evil nor cruel. Respect him, and he’ll show you the Nine Worlds and beyond.

Read the myths, read the books, but try to remember this: the deities are ALIVE, right here, right now. Does it really matter who they were eons ago? Does it matter who you were two decades ago? Yes, it can give people a hint, but the reality is far more complex than someone’s past. The deities are alive, just like you and me - well, not exactly in the same way, but you get the idea. Yes, I read the myths, I studied them, I know the stories since I was a little child, and you know what? I know for sure that Loki is FAR more than those myths. All deities are. Just like we are much more than a couple of episodes people remember us for.

So guess what?

If you want to know who Loki was, read the myths and study the history.

But if you want to know who Loki IS, listen to him.

Oh, and a couple of witchy tips: don’t try to play him for a fool (he's smarter than you), and don’t approach him with the wrong attitude, or you’ll get burned.

True.

a very italian problem is when you’re used to ending your phone calls with ciao ciao ciaociao ciao cia- ciao ciao cia- but then you hang up a little too soon and the other person is still saying the seventh ciao and it feels like strangling them. that’s what being the worst person in the world feels like

paul simon writing sad songs about his feelings towards art garfunkel but disguising the songs as being about other things and then making art sing the songs……is just…..next level messy

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 28 • Something you wish you knew about this deity but don’t currently

Not something that involves him directly: I hope I get to know his children Narfi and Váli better, in time. I’ve had a couple of distant contacts in the past, but I felt they were kinda shy, more afraid than I was, though curious and kinda surprised by the “visit”. Their story is indescribably painful and sad, so it’s no wonder they tend to hide a bit. 

“Now Loki was taken truceless, and was brought with them into a certain cave. Thereupon they took three flat stones, and set them on edge and drilled a hole in each stone. Then were taken Loki's sons, Váli and Nari or Narfi; the Æsir changed Váli into the form of a wolf, and he tore asunder Narfi his brother. And the Æsir took his entrails and bound Loki with them over the three stones: one stands under his shoulders, the second under his loins, the third under his boughs; and those bonds were turned to iron. Then Skaði took a venomous serpent and fastened it up over him, so that the venom should drip from the serpent into his face. But Sigyn, his wife, stands near him and holds a basin under the venom-drops; and when the basin is full, she goes and pours out the venom, but in the meantime the venom drips into his face. Then he writhes against it with such force that all the earth trembles: ye call that ‘earthquakes’. There he lies in bonds till the Weird of the Gods." {{Gylfaginning, from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, transl. by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur}}

My heart longs to celebrate these forgotten children as they deserve. As the rightful gods they are.

Art: The Bedtime Tale by Hellanim on DeviantArt

Ok, so y’all know how tensions started to rise during the Bookends recording and Art wrote Paul the long letter telling about his hard feelings toward Paul and the duo? Now go listen to Overs.